Builders make $100 per hr! Incorrect. They charge you $100 per hr,and out of that they pay wages to employee say $34,vehicle expenses,office expenses,insurances, superannuation,sick leave,holiday leave, plant and equiptment maintenance. phone expenses.bank fees, interest on loans for materials/plant etc,licence fees,rent. The business owner would be lucky to make $20/hr/ employee. Unlike you head in the sand lot that just take your pay each week and moan how hard you have it.